FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
There’s a trope that you often see in corporate media discussions of the stimulus plan: Yeah, but do you really want to spend money on that? It may have started with the misrepresented contraceptive plan—which seemed to be grounded in a traditional media fascination/embarrassment at anything involving sex—but now it’s moved on to anything that…well, […]
There are two problems with William Glabersonâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s New York Times News Analysis piece (12/10/08), ‘Relatives of 9/11 Victims Add a Passionate Layer to Guantanamo Debate.” Let’s start with the lead: After the detainees charged with the plotting of the September 11 attacks discussed confessing this week, something unusual was heard here: a vigorous public defense […]
Two disappointing reports in major newspapers on the healthcare debate. In the Los Angeles Times, Noam Levey writes (“Consensus Emerging on Universal Healthcare“) that the momentum for real change is obvious in Washington–but that it only goes so far: The idea of a federal, single-payer system patterned on those in Europe and Canada, long a […]
It says something for the weakness of your argument when you have to turn your opponents’ argument on its head. Take the L.A. Times editorial today (11/24/08) headlined “An Unfair Litmus Test.” The editorial claims that “some ardent supporters of Barack Obama are aggrieved because the president-elect’s emergent national security team includes supporters of the […]
New reports of civilian casualties in Afghanistan (37 dead) were covered in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. The story provides a decent sense of thedeath toll, but near the end makes a rather bizarre point (see bold): Afghan weddings are traditionally large, drawn-out affairs, and wedding parties several times have been the target of […]
You don’t compare the size of political rallies to rock concerts, but to other political rallies, and compared to other political rallies, Obama’s are quite large. But *does* Fall Out Boy really get crowds as big as Obama’s?
Though never mentioning FAIR by name, Fox News Channel‘s Bill O’Reilly responded to a recent FAIR action alert correcting statements the host made about the L.A. Times and its coverage of Arnold Schwarzenegger. O’Reilly was harshly critical of the paper for reporting allegations that Schwarzenegger had a long record of groping and harassing women. This […]
(NOTE: Please read the update to this alert: O’Reilly “Responds” to FAIR) In his continuing criticism of the Los Angeles Times for printing stories about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s alleged record of groping and sexual assault, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly (10/8/03) pointed to what he saw as a double standard: “Do you think the L.A. Times […]
